Famous People who were Native Americans

Name these famous people from history who were Native Americans.

Years are approximate in many cases

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Life	Hint	Person
c. 1540 / Legendary	Precolonial leader who co-founded the Iroquois Confederacy and was immortalized by Longfellow	Hiawatha
1585 – 1622	Was an interpreter, guide, and advisor for the Mayflower Pilgrims	Squanto
1596 – 1617	Associated with Jamestown, Virginia, she married colonist John Rolfe.	Pocahontas
1714 – 1769	Odawa chief who led a 1763–1766 war (named for him) against the British in the Great Lakes region (Hint: car brand)	Pontiac
1767 – 1838	Sauk brave who fought in the Midwestern war named after him (Hint: colorful name)	Black Hawk
1768 – 1813	Shawnee chief who resisted U.S. expansion and died in the War of 1812	Tecumseh
1770 – 1843	Representative of the Cherokee nation who developed a writing system for the tribe	Sequoyah
1788 – 1812	Young Shoshone woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition	Sacagawea
1805 – 1874	Leader in the Apache Wars in the Southwest (Hint: debut Audioslave single)	Cochise
1822 – 1909	Lakota leader who successfully fought the US Army in Wyoming and Montana (Hint: colorful name)	Red Cloud
1829 – 1909	Apache leader and medicine man who fought Mexicans and the U.S. in the Southwest (immortalized by a military exclamation)	Geronimo
1831 – 1890	Chief who helped defeat Custer's battalion at the Battle of Little Bighorn	Sitting Bull
1840 – 1877	Lakota war leader who fought in the Black Hills War and the Battle of Little Bighorn (Hint: mountain memorial)	Crazy Horse
1840 – 1904	Nez Perce tribe leader in the Pacific Northwest	Chief Joseph
1879 – 1935	"Oklahoma's Favorite Son" who acted in 71 movies	Will Rogers
1887 – 1953	Olympic gold medalist who competed in the pentathlon and decathlon, American football, baseball, and basketball	Jim Thorpe

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